December 31, 2006, 11:12 AM EST:
I don't know if it is hundreds or thousands, but flocks of mourners have begun to arrive on scene. No doubt many more will make the trek to visit Saddam's grave in the village of Ouja near Tikrit. Saddam could have been held as a prisoner for life in The Hague. Now he has been made into a martyr and no doubt another rallying cry for Muslims, Arabs, Sunnis, Baathists, and al Qa'ida terrorists.
You're don't a heck of a job, Bushie! No doubt, Bush apologists have a perfect excuse. They can blame the Iraqi government of Nouri al Maliki for this stregetic error. Bush can try to wash his hands of the sordid affair, but all the sands of Arabia cannot wash the blood of revenge from George W. Bush's hands. Sleep well, sweet prince!
Hundreds flock to see Saddam's gravesite
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Dec 31, 10:23 AM EST
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village where Saddam Hussein was born on Sunday to see the deposed leader buried in a religious compound 24 hours after his execution.
Dozens of relatives and others, some of them crying and moaning, attended the interment shortly before dawn in Ouja. A few knelt before his flag-draped grave. A large framed photograph of Saddam was propped up on a chair nearby.
"I condemn the way he was executed and I consider it a crime," said 45-year-old Salam Hassan al-Nasseri, one of Saddam's clansmen who attended the interment in the village just outside Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad. Some 2,000 Iraqis traveled to the village as well.
Mohammed Natiq, a 24-year-old college student, said "the path of Arab nationalism must inevitably be paved with blood."
"God has decided that Saddam Hussein should have such an end, but his march and the course which he followed will not end," Natiq said.
Police on Saturday blocked the entrances to Tikrit and said nobody was allowed to leave or enter the city for four days. Despite the security precaution, gunmen took to the streets, carrying pictures of Saddam, shooting into the air and calling for vengeance.
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Faire l'amour, pas la guerre
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